Word: shan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defend, it seemed hard to believe war was really at hand. Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard recalled that he was planting irises under an apple tree. "Suddenly I heard Virginia's voice calling to me from the sitting-room window: 'Hitler is making a speech.' I shouted back: 'I shan't come. I'm planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead...
...HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS, Collins 5 8 FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, Coonts 7 9 THE PANIC OF '89, Erdman -- 10 SHAN, Van Lustbader -- NONFICTION 1 FATHERHOOD, Cosby 1 2 A SEASON ON THE BRINK, Feinstein 6 3 THE ROTATION DIET, Katahn 3 4 MCMAHON!, McMahon 2 5 MEN WHO HATE WOMEN...
...provides interpreters for 80 different languages from Albanian and Amharic to Turkish and Tongan. One judge estimates that nearly half his cases require an interpreter. Sometimes the results are freakish. A police officer testified that he had read a Chinese suspect his Miranda rights in Chinese, in the Tai- shan dialect. The suspect only understood Cantonese. The judge thereupon ruled out his confession...
...twelve, Liang Heng found wall posters in a public square denouncing his father as a "foreigner's dog" and a "thoroughly capitalist newsman. "His father, Liang Shan, had become one of the scape goat intellectuals of the 1966 Cultural Revolution. In tears, Heng ran home to demand of his father "Is it true that you're a bloodsucker?" His father could only respond with "You should always believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang...
...Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...